Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students
16 August 2012
Students walk by a display about China at Stearns High School in Millinocket, Maine, in 2011. The public high school began recruiting foreign students in an effort to raise money to avoid cuts in programs, and in response to a shrinking student population
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education said many foreign students report feeling lonely or unwelcome in Australia. Those feelings are among the reasons why Australia is taking a close look at its international education industry. The government has formed an advisory council to help develop a five-year national strategy for the future of international education in Australia.
But wherever international students go, making friends may not always be easy. The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication recently published a study done in the United States.
Elisabeth Gareis of Baruch College in New York surveyed four hundred fifty-four international students. They were attending four-year colleges and graduate schools in the American South and Northeast.
Students from English-speaking countries and from northern and central Europe were more likely to be happy with their friendships. But thirty-eight percent of the international students said they had no close friends in the United States.
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